Case Study: athenahealth strengthens secrets management and application data security with HashiCorp Vault

Secrets Management with athenahealth

athenahealth, a globally distributed healthcare organization, needed a better way to secure secrets and application data across cloud environments while protecting hundreds of patient and business records. HashiCorp addressed this challenge with Vault, its secrets management and data protection platform designed for cloud security.

Using HashiCorp Vault, athenahealth centralized secrets management and strengthened data encryption and advanced data protection across applications, clouds, and infrastructure. The result was a more secure cloud operating model backed by trusted identity sources, with HashiCorp reporting broad adoption of Vault at scale, including 2T+ transactions, 1M+ monthly downloads, and 300+ enterprise customers.

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Jeff Byrnes

Lead Site Reliability Engineer